Individual Artist category: 1922 books

Andrea Mantegna (1431 Isola di Carturo – 1506 Mantoue) Mantegna, humaniste, géomètre, archéologue, homme d'une grande intelligence et d'une puissante imagination, domina la scène de l'Italie septentrionale grâce à sa personnalité impérieuse. Cherchant à produire des illusions d'optique,...

Pieter Bruegel, l'Ancien (près de Breda, 1525 – Bruxelles, 1569) Pieter Bruegel fut le premier membre important d'une famille d'artistes, actifs durant quatre générations. D'abord dessinateur avant de devenir peintre, il peignit des thèmes religieux, comme la Tour de Babel, avec des couleurs...

Michel-Ange (Michelangelo Buonarroti) (Caprese, 1475 – Rome, 1564) Michel-Ange, comme Léonard de Vinci, avait plusieurs cordes à son arc et était à la fois sculpteur, architecte, peintre et poète. Il porta à leur apothéose le mouvement musculaire et l'effort, équivalents plastiques de la...

Raphaël (Raffaello Sanzio) (Urbino, 1483 – Rome, 1520) Raphaël est l'artiste moderne qui ressemble le plus à Phidias. Les Grecs eux-mêmes disaient que ce dernier n'avait rien inventé, mais qu'il avait porté toutes les formes d'art créées par ses prédécesseurs à un tel degré de perfection,...

Winner of a 2017 Christianity Today **Book Award ******* Some of the greatest painters, musicians, architects, writers, filmmakers, and poets have taken their inspiration from their faith and impacted millions of people with their stunning creations. Now readers can discover the stories...

Ever wondered how Joseph Gordon-Levitt rose to stardom?When Joseph Gordon-Levitt first burst onto the screen as a bubbly, precocious, and slightly nerdy child star, very few audiences could have predicted that he would become one of the most respected and innovative presences in Hollywood....

Frederic Edwin Church (1826 – 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, perhaps best known for painting large panoramic landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets,...

"Die maßgebliche Biographie für Jahrzehnte."Leo Jansen, Kurator des Van-Gogh-Museums, AmsterdamDie große, bahnbrechende, opulent illustrierte Biographie Vincent van Goghs, die einen völlig neuen Blick auf das Malergenie ermöglicht. Sie vereint große erzählerische Kraft mit psychologischem...

Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) wurde mit seinen Künstlerviten zum Erfinder der Renaissance. Noch immer sehen wir die Kunst dieser Epoche mit seinen Augen. Vasari ist zudem bis heute als Architekt der Uffizien, als Stadtplaner und Maler weltberühmt. Er stieg zum hochbezahlten Hofkünstler auf und wirkte...

Un’ idea, che fu di Paolo Mattia Doria, viene ripresa e sviluppata alla luce delle riflessioni di intellettuali italiani e stranieri: a Napoli virtù e vizi sono diversi che altrove, e ciò dipende dalla storia della città, dalla forma urbana, e secondo alcuni, anche dal clima. Abbiamo esaminato...

Esiste un luogo, oltre lo spazio ed il tempo (quattro semplici dimensioni), in cui il sogno e la realtà si incontrano: questo luogo si chiama "arte". Nel mondo dell'arte, la fragilità può diventare forza e nel contempo la forza può diventare fragile. Pittura, scultura, fotografia, musica,...

Society is a structure of enhanced natural processes. We live in an environment that is essentially 2 operating systems running in parallel to each other.

A jeweler with an established reputation through the world, Louis Comfort Tiffany was the spearhead of the Art Nouveau movement in the United States. At a time and in a country in perpetual growth, Tiffany succeeded in elevating the decorative to the rank of fine art. Glass was the field of expertise...

Paul Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint at weekends as a Sunday painter. Nine years later, after a stock-market crash, he felt confident of his ability to earn a living for his family by painting and he resigned his position and took up the...